Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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The Afro-Latino experience in the U.S. VOXXI 2012-02-09 Rosalba Ruiz Growing up in South Los Angeles in the 1970’s, Armando Brown never thought about his multiracial identity. “When I was growing up, I was black,” Brown, a 45-year-old photojournalist, says. “It was never an issue.” The son of a creole man from New Orleans and…
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Was pro baseball’s first African-American player passing for white? Vox 2015-04-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris William Edward White on the 1879 Brown baseball team. White is in the second row, seated and wearing a hat. (Source: Brown University Archives via Slate) A story about professional baseball’s little-known first black player (well, possible first black player) raises as…
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Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans University Press of Florida 2006-05-30 304 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2942-9 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity…
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Natasha Trethewey Reactions The Arc of the Universe Bends Towards Justice The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2015-04-02 Caitlin Ziegert Mccombs Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer prize winner and past Poet Laureate of the United States, came to visit and read some of her poetry for an audience much too large for Severance 09. After listening…
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Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-06 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Emily S. Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy California State University, Fullerton This is the ninth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is…
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Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music CapeNews.net Falmouth, Massachusetts 2015-01-19 Sam Houghton Morgan J. Peters, a Mashpee troubadour in Afro-Native-American-inspired music, with his band the Groovalottos, is on his way to producing a full-length album as well as a documentary. The “mini-film” will explore the combination of black and Native American music and…